Review Of Lemon Jelly – 64-95
Track record:
’88 AKA Come Down On Me
’sixty eight AKA Only Time
’ninety three AKA Don’t Stop Now
’95 AKA Make Things Right
’79 AKA The Shouty Track
’seventy five AKA Stay With You
’seventy six AKA The Slow Train
’ninety AKA Man Like Me
’64 AKA Go
North London duo Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen AKA Lemon Jelly return with their exact brand of downbeat madness, melody and eccentric humour.
The boys show up to had been up for the quandary delivering a unconditionally natural Lemon Jelly album however not like one we’ve observed until now. Whilst there is still the abundance of annoyingly catchy piano loops, samples and simplistic melodies that have served them so good within the prior, ’sixty four-’95 all of a sudden seems to be greater mature. Whilst not as immediately likeable as “Lost Horizon’s” this guarantees greater sturdiness and might be each of the stronger for it.
Long, sluggish-building tracks like “Only Time”, “Don’t Stop Now” and the aptly titled “The Slow Train” are interspersed with Lemon Jelly’s own guitar anthems, “The Shouty Track” which samples Scottish punks The Scars and the Chemical Brother tribute song “Come Down On Me” which makes use of samples from the now defunct heavy-metallers Master of Reality. Additional contributions from Terri Walker and Star Trek’s very possess William Shatner verify that the men give the roughly eclectic album we’ve now come to are expecting and love.
This is the 1st album they’ve made with an accompanying DVD, lovingly created by way of Airside, the layout manufacturer consisting of 50% Deakin. All very incestuous but it unquestionably does paintings effectively. Now, additionally to the previously pleasing “Jelly” packaging & paintings, we are given visuals to decorate every single tune. How advantageous of them!